OK. I feel bad for these folks

New paper finds GPT-4 is very good at pricing, acting as an agent to get a merchant the best price.

In fact, it is a little too good. When it is possible to establish an oligarchy, LLM agents spontaneously collude on pricing to the detriment of customers! arxiv.org/abs/2404.00806

Wikipedia articles about past exhibitions are a great opportunity to share culture. Thanks to Georgina for letting me report the surprising outcomes of my work with The Khalili Foundation

Our new interactive website is nominated for a website design award! Voting is open until April 4th 🗳️

Link to vote: awwwards.com/sites/the-khal…

#websitedesign #awwwards

I have a preprint out! Evidence for extensive appearance of chatGPT/LLM derived text in scholarly papers, signalled by words that mysteriously became a lot more popular in 2023 - eg 'commendable'. I estimate upwards of 60,000 papers last year (& rising...) arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

Round the world: writing one women's Wikipedia article at a time 🌍🌎🌏

Many thanks to Robyn Vinter for covering this project so cleverly 💚
theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

🌎🌍🌏 Guess who has written a biography on English @wikipedia for a woman from every country in the world? 👇 It me! 🧵

How Wikipedia can help to disseminate research: an innovative NIHR Research project - led by Adam Harangozó
nihr.ac.uk/blog/how-wikip…

Great Leeds ReproducibiliTea session today on Wikimedia and Open Research by Martin L Poulter! 😁

Really liked the quote as well that Wikipedia is pre-research to give overview of a topic, before you dive more into the actual research.

Thank you to Martin & attendees!

Open Research Leeds

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our February Leeds ReproducibiTea 🫖 session. We heard from Martin L Poulter from University of Bristol who shared interesting insights on Wikimedia and Open Research! For those interested, you can access the content here 👉leeds365-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal…

Americans will never judge our government's efforts to escape the Covid crisis against our peers.

But the US rebound is remarkable and unsurprising. No one else had the Rescue Plan (and then three big investment packages). This is a win for Big Fiscal and for Americans.

☕️ Leeds ReproducibiliTea session 🫖

On Wed 21st Feb (12-1pm), Martin L Poulter from Uni of Bristol will be speaking on Wikimedia & Open Research. Online session, open to all. Register here: shorturl.at/cprJ0

Nick Sheppard Eike Mark Rinke Queen Saikia (she/her) Open Research Leeds LeedsDoctoralCollege

Our partnership with The Khalili Foundation has facilitated an incredible wealth of #cultural info and research being added to the wiki projects, with particular focus on non-western #art . In this blog, we take a look at the achievements made over the last year.
bit.ly/3SlnIaf

Well, that's it. I've peaked in life having been cited in XKCD *and* making it into the alt text. Going to retire to nerd heaven now.

xkcd.com/2886/

I realise she can be an awkward backbencher nowadays but this is over the top.

How often do you think about the *Ottoman* Empire? They lasted from the 13th century to the 20th and created all sorts of art. Learn more in one of my articles that's on the front page of Wikipedia right now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of…

We've a new report: the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments to the postmasters it persecuted. That's outrageous. It's also unlawful - so the Post Office now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill. It may be insolvent.

Join us for our next Wikipedia editathon to decolonise the representation of visual art, which will be held SOAS University of London on 11th January from 4-7 pm. Our own wikimedian in residence, Martin L Poulter will be at hand to guide you through the process:
eventbrite.com/e/wikipedia-ed…

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.…

Pals! Please drop some 🪙 to Wikimedia UK! Without their support I wouldn't have carried on editing & now I've written over 500 biographies of women, literally changing the face of the internet!